ACCIDENT TO CYCLIST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17958, 9 December 1932, Page 8

ACCIDENT TO CYCLIST

JURY AWARDS £784 ARGUMENT TO BE HEARD ( Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM, last night. In tin' Supreme Court before Air. Justice Blair there was commenced to-day a. civil action which will have important legal aspects before it is finally disposed oi By eUTiingeniGiit theses will bo doall with in Wellington, the jury in court having only to decide two points, whether an., accident which was tho basis of the claim occurred through a bicycle slipping on a raised private siding,; and what measure of damages the plaintiff had sustained, all other aspects, being left to argument later, The plaintiff ,is Andrew Wilson, of Blenheim, and the defendants are tho New Zealand Loan and ATereantile Company, Limited. _ The statement, of claim set out that on August 28, 1931. the plaintiff was totally disabled as the result of an accident 'in Sinclair street, when a. bicycle which lie was riding upset through contact with one of the rails, of a rail" ay siding leading to the company ,s stores. The plaintiff claimed as special damages 63 weeks’ wages at £2 15s pci week. £173 Ss; hospital and medical expenses, £lll 3s; and general damages, £ISOO. The total claim was thus £itw g s » Tho jury returned a verdict for £784

Tho case was adjourned sine die for legal argument in Wellington.